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RedditIsDeddit, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

We should pay way more attention to other industries.

simop_jo, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

That’s sad and disgusting.

tagoth, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

This is why we need to have 90 dollar games! /s

Apex is literally free to play

MyDarkestTimeline01,

Don’t be pedantic you know what they meant.

Empricorn,

The exact opposite of what they said?

ChickenAndRice, do games w Skin Deep review - Blendo's first game in seven years is a small triumph.
@ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works avatar

I remember having fun playing the demo, but felt the humor was too Taika Waititi-ish for my tastes.

Glad to see it’s out, of course.

CaptainBasculin, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

Had over a thousand hours in Apex, while I quit way back because of different reasons, their actions definitely are not going to bring me back

Tuxman, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

And then they feed the documents to a LLM and iterate over it

Kazumara, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

I hope these CEO’s get their reckoning some way some day.

They seem to think it’s all just business and cruelly wielding power is no issue, but I think they overestimate how isolated they are.

rayquetzalcoatl,
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world avatar

They won’t get any kind of reckoning that we’ll understand. They’re rich, powerful, and insulated from pain. They’ve all got golden parachutes via their weaselly networks. There will be no karma, unfortunately.

pulido,

I don’t think they will receive a reckoning, but their children might.

It’s especially disgusting when we realize rich people are setting their children up to inherit a world where everyone hates them for being rich from exploitation.

grue,

If we want them to receive a reckoning, it’s on us, the working class, to force it to happen.

MyDarkestTimeline01, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

On the one hand it sucks that a writer lost their job. And it’ll never not suck. On the other hand I love when Apex Legends looks bad. I lost Titanfall 3 for that?

Baguette,

In a better universe apex and tf3 could have existed at the same time

Unfortunately we live in the universe where games as a live service is the only model that big companies run on, which means all resources must go to just that one game

Duamerthrax, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

Apex has a story?

arudesalad,

It’s a spinoff from titanfall, a series with a lot of cool world building, it would be a bit weird to have no story at all.

It’s also a live service so they need to copy fortnite have an in game explanation for the updates

IronKrill,
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca avatar

No, they have “lore”: a bunch of inconclusive and loosely connected animation shorts, vague plot points, and character bios that give just enough of a reason for their seasonal events to occur and for fans to drool over. Just like every other live service.

Duamerthrax,

While I feel sorry for her as a worker, I do not feel sorry for her as a writer.

Live Service writing for AAA studios has got to be the most disposable form of fiction. I can find old short stories from magazines that closed close to a century ago, but I can’t play the Destiny series from start to finish today?

EnderLaw, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

TL,DR: Company fires hundreds of workers. CEO makes $25.6 million.

MissingInteger, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

bee_boss.ogg from Haunted Chocolatier

xavier666, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

I won’t give you any free stuff any more

Gives free stuff next year

Gigachad

Croquette,

The old Terraria trick.

Zero22xx, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

Haha I’ll believe it when I see it. Pretty sure he said something similar a couple of Stardew Valley updates ago. This seems to be his number one love and obsession and one of these days while working on Haunted Chocolatier again, he’s gonna think “hmmm that would actually go nicely in Stardew Valley” and start working on SV again.

Just FYI I’m not complaining or anything. I think it’s funny and relatable. But I’m not gonna hold my breath for this game until it’s actually out.

raltoid,

I’m not saying there’s going to be another Stardew Valley update, I don’t even know at this point. Right now I am focused on my next game. So, we’ll see.

-September, 2021

bimbimboy,
@bimbimboy@lemm.ee avatar

Right now I am focused on my next game

The right now is over, now it’s stardew valley time again!

Damage,

It’s possible he actually doesn’t like Haunted Chocolatier, therefore escaping back to work on Stardew Valley when he can’t force himself anymore

Tja,

So damn relatable.

Drbreen, do games w Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements

They should set themselves their own achievement to release another fucking SC game. Don’t worry about us, we’ve already played the shit out of these games.

Kjell,
@Kjell@lemmy.world avatar

As long as they make as good as previous SC games. I have a feeling that a new SC game would be significantly worse than the older games. When was the last time Ubisoft created something good?

TankovayaDiviziya,

I heard Assassin’s Creed Shadows is decent if not good. But overall, it looks like AC Origins is the last properly good Ubisoft game.

Kjell,
@Kjell@lemmy.world avatar

I can imagine Shadows being decent and on the limit to good. Now I have not played any AC since Origins, but I can’t imagine it has changed much. Except that they have different seasons in Shadows, which is a nice feature. And it is fine if a game sticks to a concept, for example CoD have not changed much and they still sell plenty of games every year. However, if Ubisoft delivers good games, around 80 on metacritic, with their cash cows and they perform worse with other games then that does not bode well for a new Splinter Cell.

With that being said, of course I hope that a new SC is released and that it is really good.

Drbreen,

Yeah this is my only fear

MajesticElevator, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

We need more stardew valley 👀

More content

Mooooooorrrrreeeeee

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Artwork is never truly finished, it is abandoned

MajesticElevator,

My dad must have considered me as artwork then

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